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ShaunKenney.com is one of Virginia’s oldest political blogs, focusing on the role of religion and politics in public life. Shaun Kenney, 34, lives in Kents Store, Virginia and is Supervisor for the Columbia District of Fluvanna County, Virginia.
Category Archives: Virginia Blogosphere
Waldo Jaquith: Warren Olney is emblematic of what’s wrong with modern journalism.
ShareA very fair point, and something that is difficult to ascertain for the listener: On the January 1, 2010 episode of the show, the featured topic was Barbara Ehrenreich’s newest book, Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has … Continue reading
Virginia Black Conservatives
ShareAlways glad to pass along new Virginia blogs, in today’s contribution of awesome I give you: Virginia Black Conservatives. Here’s a sample of the awesome: I’ve been discouraged lately by the lack of enthusiasm that the blogosphere has had for … Continue reading
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Montaigne the Proto-Blogger?
Share Our friends at The American Interest sort of shoot down the idea that Montaigne was an inspiration for the modern-day blogger: Bakewell presents a thoroughly contemporary Montaigne, undogmatically liberal in his moral and social views, radically modern (even postmodern) … Continue reading
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$18 a Day For Open Government Awesomeness
Share$18 a day is all it takes for Virginians to get the highlight reel of what’s going on with their state government. You can help by pitching in a mere $18 to Richmond Sunlight to help buy the DVDs so … Continue reading
The Conservative Wahoo
ShareLook what I found! You sometimes wonder how many of these websites are floating around, completely unknown to the rest of us. This crew is certainly conservative, with a radio show, and going strong for four years. Reminds me of … Continue reading
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New Year, New Look?
Share Apart from infrequently posting, this site has gone… well, kinda dead. Still, with all the posting either at Bearing Drift, RedState, or Ethika Politika, I can’t help but think I’m doing a bit of a disservice by not collating all the posts … Continue reading
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On Violence in Politics
Share “Der Krieg ist eine bloße Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln” – Carl von Clausewitz, On War (1832) The handicapped are the model citizens of tomorrow. That sounds like the very worst of what many Americans would consider to … Continue reading
AC360 on Confederate Heritage Month
ShareI watched this last night and was surprised by two things: (1) how objectively fair Anderson Cooper was to this gentleman from the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and (2) how… well… how some folks will believe anything to whitewash the … Continue reading
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Social Media as Slacktivism
Share So after the Bearing Drift presented some Technorati numbers, followed by the leftosphere’s howls and Virginia Virtucon’s touche on the matter, I did myself the benefit of actually looking at my Google Analytics numbers… …and discovered that they were disabled after … Continue reading
New Dominion Project Folds
ShareKenton Ngo over at NDP is throwing in the towel, one of the many blogs that spun off of the old Raising Kaine blog: I’ve been at this for a few years now, which makes me a veteran in the … Continue reading
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